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...outrageous Child who stole the ax...
Continent. About the third millennium B.C. he rebelled against her, seizing her sacred hammer or ax or sickle, and is credited in some versions of the myth with having seduced her ; afterwards he set himself up as an authoritarian, patriarchal Thunder-god and kept her in subjection. His tragi-comic destiny (as appears in the poem) is to grow senile and be demoted to a mere God of Revels, a greasy Santa Claus...
...will finish four fact-finding inquiries into 1) mail-carrying costs; 2) the economy and efficiency of the major airlines; 3) the feasibility of joint airport and ticket facilities; and 4) air freight rates. It seemed to O'Connell that somewhere between the "meat-ax approach" to the problem of subsidies and the present tendency to higher & higher mail pay there must be a road to a system of sounder and more profitable airlines...
...tweeds and cotton stockings looks like a tired, worn housewife, Mrs. Truxtun Beale entertains with rigid selectivity at Decatur House, the only house in Washington still lighted by gas and candlelight. Said a society writer: "If you go to Beale's you're made. She has no ax to grind, nothing to sell. She's just so secure...
Last week, Kentucky's grim basketballers took the ax to Alabama (74-32), then ran Mississippi through the grinder (85-31). Next on the list was Georgia Tech. One man from Tech heatedly denied that the team was worried about the trip to Lexington. Said he in a slow drawl: "We adore playing them, because when they get beat they take it so hard." But Kentucky, currently ranked No. i by the nation's sportwriters' poll,* hadn't lost a home game in seven years. Down went Georgia Tech...